Sentinel-1A, the first satellite of ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar-imaging constellation, launched from Kourou aboard a Soyuz ST-A/Fregat into a sun-synchronous orbit to monitor land, ocean and ice.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 9 Soyuz STA Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 3 April 2014, 21:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STA Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2014-016
- Launches in 2014
- 16th of 92
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